WFP to provide food assistance for former combatants

A new emergency operation is being launched to provide food aid as an incentive for 45,000 combatants to disarm and prepare for reintegration into civilian communities, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP said in a 3 December update on its activities that it would be delivering 3,000 mt of food, including rice, oil, pulses, canned fish/meat, salt and sugar to camps holding former combatants at a cost of some US $2.7 million. The food will be distributed by the National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (NCDDR). Various international and national agencies will support programmes to reintegrate former combatants following their departure from the sites, WFP said.